The Double Helix：A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions)

作者: James D. Watson

出版社: 华文出版社

出版时间: 1980-12

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780393950755

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 298页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

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Since its publication in 1968, The Double Helix has given over a million readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research--Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of the gene. in this Norton Critical Edition, Watson's lively and irreverent account is placed in historical perspective by Gunther Stent's introduction and by retrospective views from two major figures in the adventure, Francis Crick and Linus Pauling, and by Rosalind Franklin's last student, Aaron Klug.

   Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In the criticism section, which begins with '% Review of the Reviews" by Gunther Stent, other scientists and scholars reveal their own experience and views of Watson's story. There are reviews by Philip Morrison, F. X. S., Richard C. Lewontin, Mary Ellmann, Robert L. Sinsheimer, John Lear, Alex Comfort, Jacob
  Bronowski, Conrad H. Waddington, Robert K. Merton, Peter M. Medawar, and Andr6 Lwoff; and three letters to the editor of Science by Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson. THE EDITOR: GUNTHER S. STENT is Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where his teaching and research have concerned molecular genetics and neurobiolo , as well as the history and philosophy of science. His books in Preface

Introduction

  Gunther S. Stent·The DNA Double Helix and the Rise of Molecular Biology

  Gunther S. Stent·The Author and Publication of The Double Helix

  Walter Sullivan·A Book That Couldn't Go to  Harvard (I968)

The Text of The Double Helix (I968)

Three Other Perspectives

  Francis Crick·The Double Helix: A Personal View (I974)

  Linus Pauling·Molecular Basis of Biological Specificity (I974)

  Aaron Klug·Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (I968)

The Reviews

  Gunther S. Stent·A Review of the Reviews

  Philip Morrison·The Human Factor in a Science First (I968)

  F. X. S.·Notes of a Not-Watson (1968)

  Richard C. Lewontin·"Honest Jim" Watson's Big Thriller about DNA (1968)

  Mary Ellmann·The Scientist Tells (1968)

  Robert L. Sinsheimer·The Double Helix (I968)

  John Lear·Heredity Transactions (1968)

  Alex Comfort·Two Cultures No More (I968)

  Jacob Bronowski·Honest Jim and the Tinker Toy Model (1968)

  Conrad H. Waddington·Riding High on a Spiral (1968)

  Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D.

  Watson·Three Letters to the Editor of Science (1969)

  Robert K. Merton·Making It Scientifically (~968)

  Peter B. Medawar·Lucky Jim (I968)

  Andr6 Lwoff·Truth, Truth, What Is Truth (About How the Structure of DNA Was Discovered)? (1968)

Original Papers

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick·A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (Nature, April 25, I953)

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick·Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic   Acid (Nature, May 3o, I953)

  J. H. F. Wilkins, A. R. Stokes and H. R. Wilson Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic

Acids (Nature, April 25, 1953)

  R. E. Franklin and R. G. Gosling·Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (Nature, April 25, I953)

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick ' The Structure of DNA (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, I953)

  F. H. C. Crick and J. D. Watson·The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1954)

Index of Names
内容简介:
Since its publication in 1968, The Double Helix has given over a million readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research--Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of the gene. in this Norton Critical Edition, Watson's lively and irreverent account is placed in historical perspective by Gunther Stent's introduction and by retrospective views from two major figures in the adventure, Francis Crick and Linus Pauling, and by Rosalind Franklin's last student, Aaron Klug.

   Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In the criticism section, which begins with '% Review of the Reviews" by Gunther Stent, other scientists and scholars reveal their own experience and views of Watson's story. There are reviews by Philip Morrison, F. X. S., Richard C. Lewontin, Mary Ellmann, Robert L. Sinsheimer, John Lear, Alex Comfort, Jacob
  Bronowski, Conrad H. Waddington, Robert K. Merton, Peter M. Medawar, and Andr6 Lwoff; and three letters to the editor of Science by Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson.
作者简介:
THE EDITOR: GUNTHER S. STENT is Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where his teaching and research have concerned molecular genetics and neurobiolo , as well as the history and philosophy of science. His books in
目录:
Preface

Introduction

  Gunther S. Stent·The DNA Double Helix and the Rise of Molecular Biology

  Gunther S. Stent·The Author and Publication of The Double Helix

  Walter Sullivan·A Book That Couldn't Go to  Harvard (I968)

The Text of The Double Helix (I968)

Three Other Perspectives

  Francis Crick·The Double Helix: A Personal View (I974)

  Linus Pauling·Molecular Basis of Biological Specificity (I974)

  Aaron Klug·Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (I968)

The Reviews

  Gunther S. Stent·A Review of the Reviews

  Philip Morrison·The Human Factor in a Science First (I968)

  F. X. S.·Notes of a Not-Watson (1968)

  Richard C. Lewontin·"Honest Jim" Watson's Big Thriller about DNA (1968)

  Mary Ellmann·The Scientist Tells (1968)

  Robert L. Sinsheimer·The Double Helix (I968)

  John Lear·Heredity Transactions (1968)

  Alex Comfort·Two Cultures No More (I968)

  Jacob Bronowski·Honest Jim and the Tinker Toy Model (1968)

  Conrad H. Waddington·Riding High on a Spiral (1968)

  Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D.

  Watson·Three Letters to the Editor of Science (1969)

  Robert K. Merton·Making It Scientifically (~968)

  Peter B. Medawar·Lucky Jim (I968)

  Andr6 Lwoff·Truth, Truth, What Is Truth (About How the Structure of DNA Was Discovered)? (1968)

Original Papers

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick·A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (Nature, April 25, I953)

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick·Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic   Acid (Nature, May 3o, I953)

  J. H. F. Wilkins, A. R. Stokes and H. R. Wilson Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic

Acids (Nature, April 25, 1953)

  R. E. Franklin and R. G. Gosling·Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (Nature, April 25, I953)

  J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick ' The Structure of DNA (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, I953)

  F. H. C. Crick and J. D. Watson·The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1954)

Index of Names